With students opting out of
Common Core tests in record numbers this year, the appointment comes at a critical time in the state.
Meanwhile, around the nation, parents, students, teachers, teacher unions and elected officials continue the push back against the Common
Core testing scheme.
Thus, it's only common sense to impose a moratorium on the use of Common
Core testing for high - stakes decisions affecting students and teachers.
However even more troubling was the fundamental problems that the independent study discovered with the entire common
core testing program.
And there will be a two year moratorium on the effects of the new Common
Core tests on students.
From K - 12, we have a top down, one - size - fits - all, set in stone, system with mandated teacher evaluations which include Common
Core tests results.
They also provide initial cues to test makers who are waiting to submit proposals to build the common
core testing systems.
It will also study the impact of a current moratorium on using Common
Core test scores on student records and whether it should be extended.
The debate concerning the implementation of Common
Core testing standards is now shifting from policy makers and researchers to an increasing number of parents and teachers.
Forget about the millions of dollars wasted to purchase Common Core compliant computers and Common
Core test prep software.
The move would reduce the ten to twelve hour Common
Core test by as much as an hour and forty - five minutes.
The Common
Core testing debacle is truly undermining our public schools and the students they serve.
However, the school districts with a history of low test scores teach exclusively to the Common
Core tests because so much rides on raising those scores and not being identified as failing schools.
There will be new parent - teacher conferences for the families of students who performed poorly on the controversial new Common
Core tests last year.
Just as the 529 tax plan was a misguided proposal, the Common
Core testing regime is a train wreck.
The Common
Core tests contain multiple - choice questions and some writing tasks that don't measure up to the ambitious Common Core education goals with which they are supposed to be aligned.
Meanwhile, states remain uncertain of what to expect from the common -
core tests scheduled to take effect next school year.
While the other federally endorsed Common
Core test maker, Smarter Balanced, has also lost states, they have lost fewer.
The new Common
Core tests hold promise as more accurate assessments of lower - achieving students and students with disabilities.
The two groups creating Common
Core tests for the nation are promising tests that will be dramatically different from previous state tests.
A new state law has spared teachers from being judged based on their student's Common
Core test results — at least not yet.
Sources said a deal to delay the impact of the Common
Core testing on students — but not the teacher evaluation process — for two years has been agreed to.
This year's state budget included a delay in when Common
Core test scores can be used to hold back students.
Here again, just as the 529 tax plan was a misguided proposal, the Common
Core testing regime is a train wreck.
We also understood the particular sensitivity around using
Common Core tests for this purpose.
Today, while much of the discussion about «Education Reform» revolves around the diversion of scarce public funds to privately owned and practically unaccountable charter schools and the debate about whether the Common Core Standards are useful or appropriate and whether the unfair and discriminatory Common
Core testing scam can be derailed, there is a growing realization that the rise of the Common Core is one of the biggest public relations snow jobs in American history.
In the GeekBench scorecard, the Galaxy J4 or j4lite managed to score 623 in the
single core test while managing a score of 1815 in multi-core test.
On the Geekbench, the Galaxy SM - A600FN phone scored 723 points in the single -
core test while on the multi-core test, it scored 3605 points.
The Common Core and Common
Cores testing frenzy is undermining public education in Connecticut and across the country.
Bridgeport's Maria Pereira has been one of the most powerful voices fighting on behalf of parents and local residents in the battle to defeat Governor Dannel Malloy's ongoing efforts to privatize public education through the massive expansion of charter schools and the Malloy administration's strategies to destroy local control of schools, undermine the role of parents and teachers, and turn public schools into Common
Core testing factories.
The state Education Department released 75 percent of the questions on Common
Core tests given in April to students statewide in grades three through eight — up from 50 percent of questions made public last year — and pledged that more information will be given in years to come.
Locally, Charles Russo, superintendent of East Moriches schools, was one of the few educators to speak in favor of Common
Core testing at forums that featured then - Education Commissioner John B. King Jr., held last year and in late 2013.
However, the Gordon Commission says the common -
core tests planned for rollout in the academic year 2014 - 15, «while significant, will be far from what is ultimately needed for either accountability or classroom instructional - improvement purposes.»
King also oversaw the implementation of the controversial Common
Core testing requirements, not just in the city but throughout the state.
NYSUT President Karen E. Magee shreds the common
core test contracts outside of the NYS Education Department on Monday evening, August 11, 2014, in Albany N.Y. (Selby Smith / Special to the Times Union)
U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr., a former New York education commissioner, is pushing new regulations that would designate public schools in which large numbers of students refuse to take Common
Core tests as in need of improvement.
And the New York Common
Core test does not ask students to demonstrate any speaking or listening skills.
Many parents, teachers, public school advocates and taxpayers are asking whether the Connecticut General Assembly will hold a real public hearing on the Common Core, the Common
Core testing fiasco, and the flawed teacher evaluation system?
Rather than provide the necessary resources, fight the new Common
Core Testing madness and repeal the damaging impact of his corporate education reform industry plan, Malloy is pulling out the state's credit card and ordering «computers, tablets and other electronic devices in order to meet the requirements of Common Core.»
Did your CT legislators support students, parents and teachers or Malloy and the Common
Core testing mania?